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Micah 7:10

Micah 7:10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

She that is mine enemy. The worldly power is here personified, as so often "the daughter of Jerusalem." Shall see it. She shall see that Israel was not conquered because God was powerless to save. Where is the Lord thy God?

The Assyrians always attributed their success in arms to the assistance, of their gods and the superiority of their deities to those of the conquered nations (comp. ; ). Thus the inscription of the palace of Khorsabad begins, "The gods Assur, Nebo, and Merodach have conferred on me the royalty of the nations....

By the grace and power of the great gods, my masters, I have flung my arms, by my force I have defeated my enemies" ('Records of the Past,' vol. 9.). (For taunts like that in the text, see ; ; ; .

) Mine eyes shall behold her. Israel shall behold the destruction of the enemy. As the mire of the streets (; ).

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